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Frozen II is a movie for our era of change

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Death Unstranding (Entry 2): Trikes, Likes, and Adrenaline Spikes

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Death Unstranding (Entry 1): Zen and the Art of Being Stranded in the Kojima-verse

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Wira lands most of its action movie punches, but misses when it kicks higher | Review

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How Wira director Adrian Teh made a gritty antithesis to Paskal — practice, practice, practice

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All I want for Christmas is Netflix’s Klaus, a symbol that 2D animation can still amaze and evolve

by JY Tan
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Doctor Sleep shows us how to confront a haunting past, and what happens when we don’t | Review

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It’s #metoo for Nina Wu, a film that slashes the glamorous wrappings of showbiz | Review

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4 Malaysian games getting us hyped for Level Up KL Play 2019

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Bad Times at the El Royale looks like a good time

On Jul 19, 2018 6:25 pm, by JY Tan

Wait a minute. This isn’t a new trailer! It came out about a month ago! Why are you even talking about this? Well, some things are like parasites… more

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On Happiness Road, emotion is a cross junction | Review

On Jul 18, 2018 11:13 am, by LM Foong
On Happiness Road

Can one be unhappy on Happiness Road? The answer is both complicated and simple, depending on who you ask in this movie. The protagonist’s mother (Liao Hui-Jen) would… more

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Y brings a different apocalypse to TV

On Jul 16, 2018 11:04 am, by J Cheong

About 5 years ago, I was introduced to the comic Y: The Last Man (Y:TLM) by Bryan K. Vaughn. And though I was about 6 years late to… more

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RoboCop to be revived again, this time by Neil Blomkamp

On Jul 13, 2018 4:10 pm, by JY Tan

Alex Murphy can’t die. Or, at least, Hollywood won’t let him. The cyborg law enforcer with sci-fi’s most prominent lips will be rebirthed once again, this time by… more

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The strange, satisfying grounded-ness of Ant-Man and the Wasp: A review

On Jul 12, 2018 12:24 am, by JY Tan

It was somewhere in the middle of Ant-Man and the Wasp that I finally understood why the first film featuring our size-altering superhero had its own avid following…. more

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Is there really a white saviour in Isle of Dogs?

On Jul 11, 2018 10:00 am, by LM Foong
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Wes Anderson, the senpai of symmetry and enabler of all who disproportionately fuss over proportions, has done it again with his latest movie, Isle of Dogs. The shots… more

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Heartache behind happy dance beats (Chvrches: Love is Dead)

On Jul 11, 2018 9:49 am, by J Cheong

The thing with a broken heart is that whether we like to admit it or not, we have all experienced it one way or another. Personally, my most… more

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Growing up with my Dad of War

On Jul 11, 2018 9:00 am, by JY Tan
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It was roughly 30 minutes into playing the new God of War when I thought to myself: “Wow, this feels like I’m playing my father.” It is the… more

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Our war in this corner of the world | Review

On Jul 11, 2018 8:58 am, by JY Tan
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One of the standout moments in Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World is during a bombing raid. As protagonist Suzu Urano (Rena Nonen) stares at the… more

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The Incredibles 2, and coming to terms with disappointment

On Jul 11, 2018 8:35 am, by JY Tan

I was a 17 years old, a misshapen mass of acne and awkwardness, when I first watched The Incredibles. There were explosions, but the biggest ones didn’t happen… more

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